Letter from Major-General Baden-Powell.
* It will be remembered that when the residents of Foxton celebrated the relief of Mafeking, Mr J. T. Ray moved a resolution that the then Colonel Baden-Powell be congratulated, and the Mayor, Mr W. B. Rhodes, undertook to do this. Mr Rhodes wrote, aud to-day he has recoived the following reply in the Major-General's own handwriting. Government House, Cape Town. 9th Oct., 1900. The Worshipful The Mayor of Fox ton. Dear Sir, I am most deeply grateful to Foxton for their generous tribute to outwork at Mafeking, and for their kind congratulations on our relief Such recognition of our attempts to do our duty goes far to compensate us for any anxieties or privations we have suffered, and we arc heartily thankful to our brothers across the sea for their warm interest and sympathy. Yours very truly, R. Baden-Powell, Maj -Genl.
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Manawatu Herald, 22 November 1900, Page 3
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145Letter from Major-General Baden-Powell. Manawatu Herald, 22 November 1900, Page 3
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